Cigar-filler and method of preparing same.



PATBNTED' JULY 31, 1906.

' o. TYBERG. CIGAR FILLER AND METHOD OF PREPARING SAME.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 27, 1903.

' WITNESSES:

, -ATTOR 5 tuckends of cigars vary in taperand also in v. UNr DsTATEs PATENT-QEFIOE;

OLUE TYBERG, OE BROOKLYN; NEw YORK, AssreNoR TO INTERNATIONAL cIeAR MACHINERY COMPANY, OF JERSEY our EW RsEr ooR- PORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

ClGAR-FlLLER AND METHOD F PREPARING SAME} 1'0 all whom it mayloonc er n:

Z .Be it known that I, OLUE TYBERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brook-' lyn, county of Kings, and State of. New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Fillers and Method of Preparing Same, fully described and representedin the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the'same. I

This invention relates to 1mprovements in :1 cigar-fillers and to. a method of preparing the same, and particularly. to cigar-fillers designed for use in the manufacture of cigars by machinery.

anism, either with their tuck ends or head endsin the lead, to a bunching mechanism.

' :zfi which rolls the filler into a bunch, the bunchv thus formed being thereafter wrapped and the cigar thus completed.

As. usually manufactured 3 the heads and thickness, the head end of the. cigar being usually more tapered and of less diameter than the tuck end. This difi'erence in taper and in thickness between, the head and tuck end of a cigar is usually provided for by g cutting away a part of thetobacco at opposite ends of the length or section of filler, the portion thus cut away being greater at that end of. the filler which is to form the head of the cigar than that which isto form the tuck end of the cigar. r i

In the manufacture of cigarsby machinery it has been heretofore proposed toprepare the fillers for the cigars in the following manner: The piecesof tobacco which are to form the filler were assembled in a pile or mass of suitable thickness and of such length as to provide for several filler sections or lengths,- which were severed from the mass or pile of filler material by two sets of cutting devices, each of which made transverse serrated or zigzag cuts in the pile or mass, the two outs be'ing made at such a distance apart as to provide between them a length or section of filler suitable for the formation of a cigar. As the filler sections or lengths were thus severed from the pile or mass Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed August 27, 1903- S erial No. 170.905.

' they were conveyed it by suitable feedin g' mechanism to rolling devices for forming each section of fillerqintoabunch, which was afterward wrapped. and, rerolled into a, com

pleted cigar. a l In the method hererefeired to one. of the. cuttingv devicesemployedmade a serrated Pat entedJu1 y31,1i906.

cut in thepile or' mass of filler material which, -i a:

left long-slender.interlockingdprojections onv the two,edges of the c'utor a. acent endsfof two sections or lengths, while the other cut- ?ting device made a out which left. shorter in: terlocking projections on the two edges of that cut. Withsuchamethod of cutting as.

this-it will be observed that asa. result. of

thefirsti cut referred to the rear end ofthe leading section or length of filler. and. the

leading end. of the followingfsection. each form the head of a. cigar, while therear end.

of the latter sectionor length andathe for-,

ward end f of the. next section or length In the manufacture of cigars by machinery the filler sections or lengths must. be' fed,

formed by the second cutting device referred to will each form. the. tuck end of azcigar.v

to the bunching mechanism in a .c'ertainw orderthat is to say, they must allb'e. fed head first or they must allbe fed tuck-end first, With such a, method o foutting, however,.as.that just described it will beob- I served that in order to produce. this feed of the fillersthat.is, all head first or all tuck.-. end firstit is necessary to reversev every sec-J ond filler section or length severed fromzthe pile. or mass. This is objectionable, as it takes time, and it is. further objectionable because the handling. of each second section or length of filler may and probably will .re-.

filler material severed into sections or lengths in such way that the two edges of eachcut' that is, the rear end of the leading sectionor length of filler and the leading end of the .s'ult in disturbing the piecesz'of.tobacco:..ofi

the method of cutting illustrated in Fig. 1.

,3 or mass between each of thecutsa, I).

Fig. .4 is a similar iew illustrating the filler produced by' the method of cutting illustrated in Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a similar view of a cigar made from the filler illustrated in Fig. 3or Fig. L. c v

Referring to Figs.- land 3 of said drawings, A represents a pile'or mass of filler, and B a section or length of filler severed therefrom. The section or length B of filler illustrated in Fig. 3 is severed-from the pile or mass A of filler material by meansof a suitable cutting toolor tools, which cut through the mass or pile on the lines a a and the lines 1) I). These cuts may be formedsimultaneouslyor successively and by meansof any suitable cutting devices. 'As a result'of this method of cutting it will 'be'observed that at the rear end of the leading section orlength of filler there are formed short projecting portions 0 of tobacco, while at the leading end of the following section there are formed longer projections d oftobacco, the end of the filler-section containing. the short section 0 being designed to form the tuck 'end of the cigar, while that endwhich contains the projections d. of tobaccois desi ned to form the head of the cigar.. In. the formation of these cuts it..will: be observed also that small portions 6 of tobacco arecut out of and removed from the mass or pile =A.

Referring now toFigs. 2 and 4, it will be observed that the pile or mass-of filler material is severedby means of a suitable cutting tool ortools on the lines a b, a very small portion e of tobacco being cut out of the pile As a result of this method of cutting there is produced a filler section or length of the form illustrated in Fig. 4, the projections 01 in the latterbeingsomewhat shorter than the projections d in the filler-section illustrated in Fig. 3, while the projections c are a little thicker or wider than the projections c in the filler illustrated in Fig. 3.- In either case-- that is to say, according to the method of cutting illustrated in Fig. 1 or that illustrated in Fig. 2there is produced in the pile or mass A sections or lengths B of filler with the adjacent ends or edges of each two filler sections or lengths having dissimilar shapes or cuts, so that as each section or length of filler is severed from the mass or pile it may be fed forward to the bunching-machine (head first or tuck-end first, according to the arrangement of the bunching mechanism) without "the reversal of any of the sections or lengths,

which is necessary in prior methods of cutting and preparing fillers for the manufacture of cigars by machines as before pointed out.

What I claim is 1. The method of preparing cigar-filler which consists in first arranging the filler material in a suitable pile or mass and then severing the mass transversely into sections of suitable lengths, the line of out being such as toleave projecting portions at the rear end of theleading section and the forward end of the next succeeding section, the projecting portions on one side of the out being different in shape and containing different amounts of tobacco from those on the other side of the cut, whereby the cut end of the section on one side of the cut is adapted to form the tuck end of a cigar and the cut end of the secsaid ends will form the tuck end of a cigar and the other the head of another cigar, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OLUF TYBERG.

Witnesses:

, T. F. KEHOE.

G. M. BORST. 

